Spoon and method of making the same



Oct. 8, 1935. 5, JENNINGS JR 2,016,861

SPOON AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME Filed Aug. 27, 1954 INVENTOR ATTORN EY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,016,861 SPOON AND METHOD OF MAKIN THE Samuel Jennings, Jr., Masury,

[he Isaly Dairy Company, Youngstown,

a corporation of Ohio Application August 27,

4 Claims.

This invention relates to spoons and especially to dipping spoons cream from a container object of will be strong and the quantity of ice and load the cream of the invention is to so improve ing process that the spoons may the invention is or scoops for transferring ice to an ice cream cone. One to produce a spoon which easily manipulated to take up cream required to fill a cone into the cone. Another object the manufacturbe rapidly finished and will be of all seams so that moisture cannot enter the handle and separation of the constituent elements cannot occur. These stated objects and other the description proceeds are objects which will appear as attained in the structure and process illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and the novel features defined in In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the invention resides in certain the appended claims.

completed is a plan view, partly broken away and on on the line 3-3 of Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a bottom plan view. Figure 5 is an enlarged section on the line 5-5 of Figure 4.

Figure 6 is a bottom plan view of the spoon before the stem has b plied.

Figure 7 is a plan een sealed and the handle apview of the blank.

In manufacturing a spoon according to the present invention,

rustless sheet metal there is provided a blank of of suitable gage having a cordate major portion l and a tongue 2 extending from the base of said major portion, slits 3 being formed in the edges of the tongue at its junction with the major portion of the tongue being of the blank, and the edges slightly diverged adjacent the tioh given an arcuate dished shape whereby toform the bowl 5 having a sharp pointed end 6 and relatively high sides slanting and diverg l, the edges of the sides ing toward the two ends. The

butt end 8 of the bowl is broader than the entering end 6, and the ears 4 of the tongue are folded under and against the butt end to unite therewith in a graceful curve,

as shown at 9. The tongue 2 is rolled by successive stages into a tubular stem Ill, and prior to ing process, a rod disposed within end projecting lon the last stage of the stem-form- II of circular cross-section is the partly formed stem with one gitudinally therefrom, and is SAME Ohio, assignor to Ohio,

1934, Serial No. 741,661

spot-welded at the outer end of the stem. The folding or rolling is then completed, the result being the production of a tubular stem of circular cross-section fitting closely around the rod, as shown in Figure 5, with the ears 4 bearing against 5 the under side of the bowl and the side edges of the tongue parallel and defining a slot I2 extending longitudinally of the stem. The slot I2 is closed and its sides, together with the edges of the ears 4, are permanently united with the rod and 10 the bowl, respectively, by electric welding, the weld l3 being finished so as to present a smooth surface merging into the surface of the bowl. A handle I4, preferably of hard rubber, is then forced over the end of the rod, the proportions of the parts being such that the rod will bind in the bore of the handle and will be firmly held therein by friction while the end of the stem will enter the handle and will be sealed thereby effectually preventing the entrance of moisture.

By following the described method spoons may be rapidly produced at a low cost, and the finished spoon will be well adapted to dipping ice cream and transferring it to an ice cream cone. The tubular stem is strongly reenforced by the rod it encloses so that bending or breaking of the stem is not apt to occur even when the spoon is forced into the hardest ice cream. It is to be particularly noted that the stem or shank is on a plane with or below the bottom of the bowl and, therefore, will not hinder any efforts to bring the butt end of the bowl into close relation to the cone which is to be filled, while the relatively high sides of the bowl will retain the ice cream until it is pushed or scraped off into the cone.

Having described my invention, what I claim is:

1. The method of manufacturing a spoon which consists in forming a blank having a major cordate portion and a tongue projecting therefrom and shaping the blank longitudinally whereby to produce a bowl having a pointed end and relatively high sides and a tubular stem having ears bearing against the under side of the bowl at the butt end of the same, housing a rod in the stem, and welding the stem to the rod, and the ears to the bowl.

2. The method of manufacturing a spoon which consists in forming a blank having a major cordate portion and a tongue projecting therefrom and shaping the blank longitudinally whereby to produce a bowl having a pointed end and relatively high sides, and a tubular stem having ears bearing against the under side of the bowl at the butt end of the same, housing a rod in the stem, and welding the stem to the rod, and the ears to 55 the bowl and then forcing a handle over the end having the extending end of the rod and the rear of the rod and the stem. end of the stem embedded and fixed therein.

3. A spoon comprising a pointed bowl having 4. A spoon comprising a bowl having a pointed relatively high sides, a, longitudinally slit tubular free end and relatively high sides having their stem projecting therefrom, ears at the inner end peaks disposed rearwardly of the transverse cen- 5 of the stem bearing against the underside of ter of the bowl and diverging toward the ends the bowl, a relatively great distance forwardly bethereof, a stem formed on and projecting from yond the juncture of the stem therewith, a weld the bowl and extending in a plane below the closing the slit of the stem and permanently unitlongitudinal center of the bowl, a rod secured in ing the ears with the bowl, a rod mounted in the the stem and extending therefrom, and a handle 10 stem and fixed therein by the weld, said rod exsecured to the rod and stem.

tending rearwardly beyond the stem, and a handle SAMUEL JENNINGS, JR. 

